BC Book Prizes
AbeBooks is a sponsor of the BC Book Prizes. We are sponsoring the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize this year and they have just announced the shortlist.
- The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating by J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith
- Everywhere Being is Dancing by Robert Bringhurst
- Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden by Don Gayton
- Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan
- The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67 by Patricia E. Roy
Other interesting books up for awards are Meg Tilly’s book Porcupine, our very own Richard Davies had a chance to interview Ms. Tilly last year. And A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah which is up for an award despite recent allegations that it is work of fiction.
Personally I am really interested in The 100-Mile Diet and think I might have to read that one. AbeBooks has arranged for a local organic market to set up shop in our building a couple times this year so we could pick up local produce on our lunch break.